The Journal of Southern History

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TheJournal of Southern History is a quarterly journal owned and published by The Southern Historical Association. It has been in publication since 1935, and its editorial headquarters are in Houston, Texas. TheJournalof Southern History focuses on southern history, broadly interpreted. Issues contain scholarly articles, historical notes, book reviews and news of historical interest. Contributors to the journal include almost everyone who is doing or has done significant work in the field of southern history. All members of The Southern Historical Association are recipients of the journal as are others interested in the study of the South. The journal's region is the United States.TheJournal of Southern History has included articles on such topics as "Opposition to Polygamy in the Postbellum South" (November 2010), "African American Farmers and Civil Rights" (November 2007), "A Region in Harmony: Southern Music and the Sound Track of Freedom" (November 2006) and "The Second Slavery: Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century Sough and the Atlantic World" (August 2009). Randal L. Hall is the Managing Editor. John B. Boles is the Editor, Bethany L. Johnson is the Associate Editor and Allison N. Madar is a Visiting Assistant Editor.

A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida. By Bernard Romans. Edited and with an introduction by Kathryn E. Holland Braund. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 442. $44.95, ISBN 0-8173-0876-8.) Kathryn...

Africa and the Blues. By Gerhard Kubik. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 1999. Pp. xx, 240. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 1-57806-146-6; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-145-8.) Conceding that the blues as a musical form is an "African-American tradition"...

A Genealogy of Dissent: Southern Baptist Protest in the Twentieth Century. By David Stricklin. Religion in the South. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 1999. Pp. xviii, 229. $36.00, ISBN 0-8131-2093-4.) This book appears at an important...

The Appalachian Studies Association will hold its twenty-fifth annual conference on March 15-17, 2002, at Unicoi State Park in the mountains of north Georgia. The theme of the conference will be "Voices from the Margins--Living on the Fringe," in which...

Civil War Macon: The History of a Confederate City. By Richard W. Iobst. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 462. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-634-7.) The state of Georgia provided its share of troops for the Confederate war effort,...

Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina. By William J. Billingsley. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1999. Pp. xviii, 308. $29.95, ISBN 0-82032109-5.) In the waning moments...

Fort Macon: A History. By Paul Branch. (Charleston, S.C.: Nautical &amp; Aviation Publishing Company of America, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 292. $29.95, ISBN 1-877853-45-3.) Tucked in among the sand dunes and sea oats on one of North Carolina's barrier islands,...

Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the American Republic. By Stuart Leibiger. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, c. 1999. Pp. xii, 284. $35.00, ISBN 0-81391882-0.) Long ago and far...

Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German POWs in Florida. By Robert D. Billinger Jr. The Florida History and Culture Series. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2000. Pp. xx, 262. $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-1740-8.) It...

Idella Parker: From Reddick to Cross Creek. By Idella Parker with Bud and Liz Crussell. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 213. $19.95, ISBN 0-8130-1706-8.) Idella Parker's account of her early years reveals...

Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital, 1880-1920. By Jacqueline M. Moore. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, c. 1999. Pp. x, 257. $37.50, ISBN 0-8139-1903-7.) During and immediately...

Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest. By Jan Morris. (New York and other cities: Simon and Schuster, c. 2000. Pp. 205. $23.00, ISBN 0-684-855515-1.) Jan Morris is the latest in a long line of British commentators on Lincoln's achievements and reputation....

Native Americans and the Early Republic. Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert. Perspectives on the American Revolution. (Charlottesville and London: Published by the University Press of Virginia for the United States Capitol...

Natural History Investigations in South Carolina from Colonial Times to Present. By Albert E. Sanders and William D. Anderson Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 1999. Pp. xl, 333. $45.00, ISBN 1-57003-278-5.) The authors of this...

Neptune's Militia: The Frigate South Carolina During the American Revolution. By James A. Lewis. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 1999. Pp. x, 235. $39.00, ISBN 0-87338-632-9.) For years, readers of naval histories and biographies...

No Spark of Malice: The Murder of Martin Begnaud. By William Arceneaux. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 349. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2447-8.) In 1896 Martin Begnaud, the congenial owner of a general store in Scott Station,...

One War at a Time: The International Dimensions of the American Civil War. By Dean B. Mahin. (Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, c. 1999. Pp. x, 343. $27.95, ISBN 1-57488-209-0.) Dean B. Mahin, who has an undergraduate major in history, a graduate degree...

ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1739, SIXTY-ODD SOUTH CAROLINA SLAVES took up arms and revolted, killing, as one terrified contemporary styled it, "twenty-three Whites after the most cruel and barbarous Manner."(1) While there is no direct testimony regarding...

Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal. By James Taylor Carson. Indians of the Southeast. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 183. $40.00, ISBN 0-8032-1503-7.) Searching...

Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism. By Mark E. Neely Jr. A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, c. 1999. Pp. viii, 212. $35.00,...

The sixty-seventh meeting of the Southern Historical Association will be held on Friday through Monday, November 16-19, 2001, in New Orleans, Louisiana, with the Fairmont Hotel serving as the headquarters hotel. The Program and Local Arrangements Committees...

The Class of 1861: Custer, Ames, and Their Classmates After West Point. By Ralph Kirshner. With a foreword by George A. Plimpton. (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xx, 224. $34.95, ISBN 0-8093-2066-5.) ...

OVER ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, CONFEDERATE general Nathan Bedford Forrest continues to haunt America. The general's exploits in the Civil War and his attitude towards African Americans throughout his life have combined to form a...

The Gullah People and Their African Heritage. By William S. Pollitzer. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxiv, 298, $40.00, ISBN 0-8203-2054-4.) In this book William Pollitzer presents a landmark study of South...

IDEA OF A "NEW SOUTH" WAS PERHAPS THE PREEMINENT INTELLECTUAL innovation of the post-Civil War era. The eastern states of the former Confederacy, and particularly Georgia, were home to numerous apostles of this vision, none more vociferous and aggressive...

The Papers of John Marshall. Volume X: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, January 1824-March 1827. Edited by Charles F. Hobson, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Robert W. Smith. (Chapel Hill: Printed by the University of North Carolina...

JUST BEFORE THE START OF THE BLOODY PENINSULA CAMPAIGN OF JUNE 1862, the soldiers of the Fourth Texas Infantry Regiment purchased a horse for General John Bell Hood, commander of what came to be known as Hood's Texas Brigade. Later, as the regiment...

Voices in the Storm: Confederate Rhetoric, 1861-1865. By Karen E. Fritz. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 173. $26.95, ISBN 1-57441-077-6.) This book poses large and important questions about the ways in which Confederate...

William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier. By Edward J. Cashin. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2000. Pp. xvi, 319. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-325-0.) Edward J. Cashin has written a fascinating narrative account...